Michigan State cheerleading team calls on West Ottawa's Sydney Beaudreault

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Apr 29, 2010 at 12:01 AMApr 29, 2010 at 11:53 AM

After holding a spot on one of the top high school teams in the state, West Ottawa senior Sydney Beaudreault will take her cheerleading to the next level. On Saturday, Beaudreault was selected to the Michigan State University competitive cheer team as one of 24 members to make the cut at the tryouts in East Lansing.

JON SCHULTZ

After holding a spot on one of the top high school teams in the state, West Ottawa senior Sydney Beaudreault will take her cheerleading to the next level.

On Saturday, Beaudreault was selected to the Michigan State University competitive cheer team as one of 24 members to make the cut at the tryouts in East Lansing.

“I had been looking into Michigan State cheerleading, and even the coed team, I had been looking into both teams ever since I was a junior, so it was a big deal to me,” said Beaudreault, who was named to all-district, all-region and all-state teams. “Everything I had been working for, it felt like it came down to that moment.”

She was part of the West Ottawa team that won regional and OK Red conference titles and earned the No. 1 ranking in Division 1 before placing sixth at the state finals in March.

The MSU club team took seventh place overall and first in the Big Ten at the National Cheerleading Association tournament in Daytona, Fla., earlier this month.

Beaudreault, who plans to study elementary education, said she couldn’t have gotten to where she is without the support of her family and coaches.

“I just really wanted to point out all the help that I had gotten,” Beaudreault said. “With my mom and dad coming to competitions, and my mom driving to gymnastics all the time and just being very dedicated, and my coach really teaching me everything about cheer.

“The West Ottawa athletic department has been very nice and I couldn’t have picked a better school to graduate from.”

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